{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-433.091","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Health and Safety Code § 433.091","heading":"FALSE REPORT; FAILURE TO REPORT; CRIMINAL PENALTY.","body":"(a) A person commits an offense if the person intentionally:\n(1) makes or causes to be made a false entry in an account, record, or memorandum kept by a person subject to this chapter;\n(2) neglects or fails to make or cause to be made full entries in an account, record, or memorandum kept by a person subject to this chapter of all facts and transactions pertaining to the person's business;\n(3) removes from the jurisdiction of this state or mutilates, alters, or otherwise falsifies documentary evidence of a person subject to this chapter; or\n(4) refuses to submit to the department, for inspection and copying, documentary evidence in the person's possession or control of a person subject to this chapter.\n(b) An offense under this section is punishable by a fine of not less than $1,000 or more than $5,000, imprisonment for not more than three years, or both.\nActs 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.\nAmended by:\nActs 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1065, eff. April 2, 2015.","path":["HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE","TITLE 6. FOOD, DRUGS, ALCOHOL, AND HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES","SUBTITLE A. FOOD AND DRUG HEALTH REGULATIONS","CHAPTER 433. TEXAS MEAT AND POULTRY INSPECTION ACT","SUBCHAPTER F. ENFORCEMENT"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.433.htm#433.091","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:17Z","sha256":"91688674ca965ca396cce0006f13aa315f3bb47e8d80d93bf20d7ed4529b6636","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-433.090","next":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-433.092"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}